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Palm LifeDrive 4Go and Ubuntu Gutsy

I bought it because it was fully supported by Ubuntu. I used this Palm to sync with all my appointments and as an extra 4Go drive space. But from edgy, there has been an unfortunate regression that has completely borked sync and mount.

Sync
I use evolution just because it is handy. I tried Thunderbird + jpilot, but I prefer to have it all in one place.
To have the LifeDrive sync properly with evolution/gnome-pilot, add a /etc/udev/rules.d/10-custom.rules file containing:

This partially works. If I enable drive mode again, or logout/login or reboot (I reboot at least twice a day, this is a laptop), the drive device gets changed. I’m now with /dev/sde1 :D
Would anyone have an idea about what’s going on? Many thanks in advance.